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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 25, 1997Portage County, Summit County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT for Portage County, Summit County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1997, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 7:53 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Twinsburg, OH
Jun 25, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

656 
WUUS1 KCLE 252346 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC133-153-260045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
745 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY...SUMMIT COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CLEVELAND INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN SUMMIT COUNTY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
FMK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lucas	30 min
Jun 25, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood	69 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.